When all the players of the Chinese Olympic team gathered at the airport to check in, it was already one day after losing the game.
After a day, the pain of being eliminated gradually dissipated and became much lighter. Most of the players were able to joke around and discuss the things they bought in the duty-free shop with normal expressions...
Only Luo Kai still looked depressed.
He once again thought of the celebration Li Qingqing did during the game.
Although they lost the game against Spain, everyone was still instructed by Shi in the evening to cheer for the women’s football girls together.
So when Li Qingqing made a Hu Lai celebration in front of the camera, the Olympic team players in the conference room were all in a panic.
Although Hu Lai explained that Li Qingqing was venting his anger on the Olympic team in this way, everyone still booed him and asked him to treat him.
Only Luo Kai did not participate. He stared at the TV screen blankly, as if he had been struck by lightning.
Teammates were making noises, the conference room was bustling, and the pain of losing the game in the afternoon seemed to have faded a lot.
Luo Kai is even more painful...
Being among the hustle and bustle, he felt extremely lonely.
Until now, more than a day has passed, and he has not recovered from that depressed mood.
Although Li Qingqing said in an interview with the media after the game that the celebration was meant to pay tribute to the Olympic team and say goodbye to them, it had no other meaning. Luo Kai did not feel better because of this.
"What are you so excited about?" Teammate Zeng Chi patted Luo Kai on the shoulder to wake him up. "Why do you think you are not in a good mood? Why? Are you still worried about losing to Spain?"
Luo Kai shook his head first and then nodded: "I didn't even score a goal..."
Zeng Chi smiled: "Hey... scoring goals sometimes depends on luck. Don't think about it, are you better than me? Look at me, I got injured after playing for one and a half games. Playing in a game as bad as Argentina's
, I can only watch from the sidelines. Even if we lose to Spain... you are still qualified to go up and lose."
At this point, his smile turned bitter.
Luo Kai wanted to comfort him, but didn't know how to comfort him, so he could only remain helpless and silent.
At this moment, head coach Shi Wuyuan came over and clapped his hands: "There's something happening. Many fans and media reporters outside came to see us off, so everyone pack up and go out to say goodbye to them!"
The players of the Olympic team looked at each other, not expecting that they could still enjoy such treatment.
“Is it true or false, please guide me?” someone asked uncertainly.
“Nonsense, why did I lie to you? Get out quickly, people are waiting outside!” Shi Wuyin waved his hand.
Everyone quickly filed out of the terminal.
Sure enough, I saw a large group of people outside.
There were fans holding banners and slogans, as well as reporters carrying cameras.
I really came to see them off.
Seeing the Olympic team come out, they cheered, and reporters focused their cameras on the Olympic team.
Then two fans ran out of the crowd and handed the banners in their hands to the head coach and manager of the Olympic team.
“This is our blessing to the Olympic team, I hope you can accept it,” said two fans who looked like international students.
Shi Wuyin and Ran Jiachang unfolded the slogan, and a sentence appeared on the red cloth.
“There will be times when strong winds and waves break, so hang up your sails and sail across the sea.”
It was the poem that He Feng read at the end of his commentary on the match between the Chinese Olympic team and the Spanish Olympic team. It comes from "The Road Is Difficult - Part One" by the famous Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai. It means to believe that opportunities to ride the wind and waves will always come.
When the time comes, we must raise our sails and cross the sea to reach our ideal shore.
“Okay!” Shi Wuyuan couldn’t help but yelled “Okay” when he saw this sentence.
Then he and Ran Jiachang pulled one end up and stood behind the Olympic team players who had lined up in two teams, and then raised the banner.
“Bow down to the fans and the media!” he shouted after doing this.
The players collectively bowed to the media cameras and fans.
“Well done!”
“Come on!”
Fans and reporters gave them cheers and applause.
The Chinese Olympic team’s Olympic journey is very short. It only lasts ten days from the first group match on August 8 to the quarter-finals on August 17.
But they gave an extremely wonderful performance to the media and Chinese fans during these ten days.
Especially the 3:2 victory over Argentina, which made many overseas students and overseas Chinese feel proud.
Therefore, everyone is willing to come here to see them off, comfort them, and let them know that with such a performance, even if they lose in the end, don’t be sad, we will always cheer for you!
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“Just leave?”
When the players of the Chinese Olympic team disappeared into the airport terminal, the reporters were still looking in that direction and talking in reluctant tones.
“I’m really not used to it...Although it’s only ten days, it feels like a beautiful dream.”
“Well, I don’t know when I will dream again...”
“World Cup?” someone joked.
Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then laughed together: "That is really the ultimate dream!"
Zhang Chao did not participate in the discussion. He took out his mobile phone and pointed it at the blue sky behind the terminal.
When a plane rose from behind the terminal with a roar and pierced the blue sky, he pressed the shutter button of the camera APP.
After taking several photos in a row, he selected the one with the best effect and posted it on Weibo together with the previous photos of the Olympic team taking a group photo in front of their camera.
With the text: "Farewell to the Olympic team. Goodbye, thank you for the happiness you brought us at the Olympics! Come on!"
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“Farewell to the Olympic team. Goodbye and thank you for the joy you brought us at the Olympics! Come on!”
Li Qingqing came across this Weibo post on her mobile phone.
The first photo is of the entire Olympic team posing with the banner at the airport, and the second photo is of the moment the plane flew across the sky.
The poem on the banner, "There will be strong winds and waves, and the clouds and sails will fly across the sea" are particularly suitable for the plane soaring into the sky in the second photo.
Many netizens on Weibo left messages and forwarded: “Come on!”
Li Qingqing sighed softly when he saw this Weibo post.
As a result, she met Hu Lai for less than an hour during the entire Olympic Games.
I don’t know when we will meet again next time.
But fortunately, he performed very well in the Olympics. He scored a total of five goals. He is currently the player with the most goals in the Olympic men's football event.
Is this result impressive enough?
Should it be seen by more people?
Li Qingqing did not repost this Weibo, but said silently in his heart: "Come on, Hu Lai."
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“Old Zhao, what do you think about this? They sent us another email asking us, and this time they even raised the price!”
Dong Wen sat on the swivel chair in Zhao Kangming's office and moved his buttocks. The chair creaked sadly under him.
Zhao Kangming glanced at Dong Wen, who was getting fatter by the day, and was a little worried about the chair.
“Leeds City thinks we don’t respond because we want a high price?” Zhao Kangming asked after finishing worrying about the chairs in his office.
“It seems like this.” Dong Wen spread his hands.
“How much did they quote this time?”
"four million."
"GBP?"
"GBP."
“Good guy, it’s doubled from the day before yesterday.” Zhao Kangming couldn’t help but exclaimed.
Two days ago, just before the Chinese Olympic team was about to compete with the Spanish Olympic team in the quarter-finals, Anton Flash Club received an offer from the Premier League. The bid was from Leeds City, which had just been relegated last season.
Hu Lai was quoted two million pounds.
At that time, Dong Wen came to Zhao Kangming with this offer for discussion. Zhao Kangming said that he would definitely wait for Hu Lai to come back before discussing this matter. Don't tell Hu Lai now and let him concentrate on preparing for the game with Spain.
Dong Wen also agreed.
So Leeds City’s offer was shelved, and Anton Flash Club did not respond.
As a result, their approach seemed to be considered by Leeds City as a low offer... Today, a new offer was sent, which doubled the original one, from two million pounds to four million pounds.
If Anton Shining Star is released, then Hu Lai's transfer value will reach nearly 35 million yuan. Although in the history of Chinese football, he is not the player with the highest transfer fee. After all, the domestic league has been popular in the past few years.
While burning money, many staggering transfer fee records were created. However, in domestic football where the maximum transfer fee has been limited, Hu Lai will be the most expensive player in the country now.
“Should we wait until Hu Lai comes back?” Dong Wen asked.
Zhao Kangming nodded: "Waiting for him to come back. Also waiting to see if there will be any offers from other European clubs. Now that the Olympic games of the National Olympic team are over, those European teams have no games to continue to observe. If they really
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Dong Wen nodded in agreement, and then asked: "Lao Zhao, what do you mean? Will you let Hu Lai go to Europe?"
“At first, I thought about keeping Hu Lai in the Chinese Super League to finish this season in Flash Star. After all, our goal is to avoid relegation. But now...” Zhao Kangming looked a little embarrassed when talking about this matter.
Before Hu Lai and the others went to participate in the Olympics, he had been worried that the team would suddenly lose four main players, fearing that it would collapse in the league. So whether it was within the team or externally, he was cautious and low-key, even though he had won more than three games.
With ten points, he did not declare success in relegation.
As a result, Hu Lai and the others are almost back. Flash Star currently has 41 points, ranking sixth in the league.
Looks like relegation is no longer a problem...
Dong Wen also knew what Zhao Kangming was embarrassed about. He agreed to set the goal of relegation, but as a result, this goal was achieved half a season ahead of schedule.
Of course this is always a good thing.
So he laughed: "Then you mean you can let Hu Lai go this summer?"
Zhao Kangming shook his head: "This is the question we need to wait for Hu Lai to come back to ask him. See how eager he is to go abroad to play football. If he really wants to leave now, then I won't stop him."
What if you go to Madrid this time and after seeing the colorful world of European football, you can’t take it back?
That is a stage many times larger than that in China.
Many of his opponents in the Olympics have already played in the European leagues, but he can only have the opportunity to play against them through the Olympics. But if he goes to Europe, he can compete with high-level players almost every week.
opponent's game.
There should be few young people who can resist such temptation.
Seeing Zhao Kangming’s answer so simply, Dong Wen frowned: “I’m a little reluctant to part with it...”
Zhao Kangming glanced at him and said with a smile: "Who is willing to give it up? But Old Dong... you have to know that Hu Lai is a dragon. The pond in our country is too small for him... Moreover, outstanding young people
Players should go abroad and should not stay in China. They should go to developed countries in football, participate in high-level competitions, and work hard in places with more fierce competition. Only in this way can they make progress and drive the overall level of our country's football.
If there were more players like Hu Lai who could play abroad, our national team would have entered the World Cup long ago."
Dong Wen nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, you are right, everything is right. But I am a vulgar person, Lao Zhao... If Hu Lai leaves, what will happen to our team's scoring goals? This paragraph
It’s time for Zhang Qinghuan to become our team’s main scorer..."
The reason why Flash Star has not fallen behind is inseparable from Zhang Qinghuan's outstanding performance. But everyone can see that it is a bit reluctant for a person who was originally an offensive organizer to suddenly become a scorer. Zhang Qinghuan
If he accomplished the task well, that's because he is very capable, but he can't really transform someone into a striker, right?
The expression on Zhao Kangming's face paused, and then he shook his head: "Just look for it, there are so many forwards. Of course, I have to remind you, Old Dong, it is almost impossible to expect to meet an efficient shooter like Hu Lai.
, he is the only one."
“Does that mean our performance at Flash Star won’t be that good in the future?” Dong Wen frowned.
“It would be good to stay in the Chinese Super League every year.”
Dong Wen had a strange expression: "If you had told me before that our Flash Stars could stay in the Chinese Super League every year, I would have laughed so hard that I couldn't close my mouth... But now that you say that, I feel it is such a pity..."
“With a normal mind, think about Hexi Daqin and Capital Xiangyun last year. Our ability to stay in the Chinese Super League every year has already made many teams jealous, okay?”
Dong Wen scratched his head: "Oh, that's right. At any rate, we also won the Football Association Cup. However, Xingcheng didn't win a national championship until it was disbanded... We have reached a new height in Anton football!"